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Internal Medicine Residency program information

PGY-I

  • General Medical Floors: 4-5 months
  • Medical Intensive Care Unit: 2 months
  • Night Float: 4-6 weeks
  • Core Specialty Electives: 3-4 months
  • Vacation: 4 weeks
  • Observation unit: n/a

PGY-II

  • General Medical Floors: 2-3 months
  • Medical Intensive Care Unit: 1-2 months
  • Night Float: 4-6 weeks
  • Core Specialty Electives: 2-3 months
  • Vacation: 4 weeks
  • Observation unit: 1-2 months

PGY-III

  • General Medical Floors: 2-3 months
  • Medical Intensive Care Unit: 1-2 months
  • Night Float: 4-6 weeks
  • Core Specialty Electives: 2-3 months
  • Non-Core Electives: 4-6 weeks
  • Vacation: 4 weeks
  • Observation unit: 1-2 months

General Medicine Floors

  • No 24-hour call for an intern/resident
  • One senior resident and two interns per team
  • One additional dedicated Educational Resident per team
  • 4 ward teams, each with their own individual attending
  • One unique observation medicine experience
  • Point-of-Care ultrasound curriculum
  • "Drip-Distribution" admissions system

Medical Intensive Care

  • Two ICU teams, each consisting of 2 Senior Residents and 3 Interns
  • Procedure/Simulation Workshops for invasive procedures and airway management training
  • Dedicated Intern Simulation Procedural Workshop during Orientation week.
  • Residents are exposed to a wide array of complex pathology in one of the nation’s busiest Medical Intensive Care Units
  • Daily Multidisciplinary Rounding with Intensivists, Pharmacy, Respiratory Care, Nursing, Physical Therapy and Nutrition
  • Dedicated ICU lectures by Intensivists, Medical sub-specialists, and Pharmacy
  • On-site Intensivist present 365 days and nights/year/
  • No 24-hour call for any Resident

Night Float

  • Residents and Interns divided between the Medical Floor and ICU
  • Senior Residents are on 6 nights/week for 2-week rotations (Total of 3 rotations per year)
  • Interns are on 6 nights/week for 2-week rotations (Total of 2-3 rotations per year)
  • 1 Senior Resident and 2 Interns on the Medical Floor & Observation Unit
  • 2 Senior Residents and 1 Intern in the Medical Intensive Care Unit
  • 1 Senior Resident in the Observation Unit

Elective Rotation

  • Core Rotations are all at Advocate Christ Medical Center.
  • Residents are given the freedom to select Elective Rotations in the respective fields they are interested in, including Infectious Disease Transplant Medicine, Dermatology, PM&R, Hospitalist Medicine and Outpatient Endocrinology, Pulmonology and Infectious Disease.
  • Opportunities for Elective Rotations at both Advocate Health facilities and outside institutions.
  • Dedicated research rotation at Advocate Christ Medical Center.

Adult Medicine Center

  • State-of-the-art, outpatient clinic facility.
  • 4:1 resident to attending ratio
  • Full complement of ancillary staff to minimize non-educational duties.
  • Full electronic medical records/prescribing/orders
  • Outpatient ultrasound machine

Simulation Lab

  • State of the art simulation lab is used by residents at least 1-2 times per month
  • Monthly workshops instruct residents on procedures such as lumbar puncture, arterial lines, central lines, paracentesis/thoracentesis
  • Quarterly case-based group lab time expose residents to critical scenarios in a controlled setting with full debriefing sessions lead by physicians certified in simulation

Senior Resident Report: Three times per week
Intern Report: Weekly
Noon Report: Two-Three times per week
Grand Rounds: Monthly
Board Review: Weekly
Journal Club: Bimonthly
CPC (Clinical Pathological Conference): Two-Four times per month